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🌘 Fragment Recovered from Node 7-B | Vaultshard Transmission Log

“We didn’t mean to remember it. We just… heard humming. Like a lullaby in reverse. Chel touched the shard, and her mouth filled with seawater.”

[Transcript ends abruptly. Glyphstream corrupted.]

Researchers now believe Node 7-B may be echoing something older than the Vault. Something that predates Harmony's first archive burn.

🔮 Echoverse Lore: Braid Magic (Threadbinding)

“Not all spells are cast. Some are woven, strand by strand, into the silence between your thoughts.”

In the Echoverse, Braid Magic—or Threadbinding—is one of the oldest known forms of pre-Harmony ritualcraft. Practiced in secret by vaultborn sages and memory-weavers, it’s not about flashy incantations or burst-light glyphs. It’s about patience, memory, and intention.

Each braid tells a story. Each thread holds an echo.

✨ A single strand dyed in glyphwater might hold a forgotten name. ✨ A braid of three can bind a memory to flesh, or ward off false recall. ✨ Seven-strand weaves are dangerous—they’ve been known to whisper back when handled too long.

Some say the Coven of Eclipsed Suns still weaves braids that can undo time for a heartbeat. Others claim the Underfolk use hair-braided tokens to keep their dead from vanishing beneath the pulse.

You don’t speak braid magic. You live with it. You carry it. And sometimes… you cut it.

Would you wear a memory braid if it cost you your most peaceful thought? 🌌

🔻 Echoverse Lore Drop: The Skythread Cradle 🔻

“They say it sings, but only to those who’ve forgotten their name.”

Tucked in the upper thermals of Arken’s Wake, just beyond where breath begins to fail, floats an ancient construct known as the Skythread Cradle. From below, it appears as a tangle of broken filaments—thin silver lines against the mist—stretching impossibly between two jagged cliff-arches. But those who've climbed high enough (or been dragged there by the storm currents) tell a different tale:

The cradle isn’t broken. It’s listening.

No one knows who built it. Some say it predates the Harmony—others believe it’s a living organ, grown from root-music and old moon marrow. Pilgrims once used to tie offerings to the threads: old coordinates, faded photos, names they were trying to forget. Many of them never returned.

Now the Cradle hums on its own. It’s been doing that since the last Vaultshard went dark.

Tag your Echoverse theories. Has it moved lately? Is it waking something? Is it... weaving? 🕸️

Vault Flora You Should Definitely Avoid

“I remembered dying. But it wasn’t my death. It just fit too well.” — Vault Medic Log, Patient 7F-Skyglen

✨ New Echoverse entry unlocked: The Voreglass Spore—a glowing, glass-veined fungus rooted deep in vault-adjacent subroot chambers. It doesn’t kill you.

It rewrites you.

Not with poison. With memory.

🧬 When it ruptures:

You inhale someone else's life.

Your past glitches.

You might merge with an echo that isn't yours.

And if you're really unlucky? A vault might wake up and notice.

It’s not a relic. It’s not a parasite. It’s a bioweapon that thinks in memories.

Bright Moonlit Night

Last Modified: 04/08/2023

Rise High and Shine Bright

Last Modified: 31/07/2023

One of the many visuals of the series I teased in the recreation of the Vault's core from HL:Alyx I'd like to call "Vaultcore". :P